Do Parents Matter?: Why Japanese Babies Sleep Soundly, Mexican Siblings Don't Fight, and American Families Should Just Relax

Over the course of nearly 50 years, Robert and Sarah LeVine have conducted a groundbreaking, worldwide study of how families work. They have consistently found that children can be happy and healthy in a wide variety of conditions, not just the effort-intensive, cautious environment so many American parents drive themselves crazy trying to create. Do Parents Matter? is an eye-opening look at the world of human nurture, one with profound lessons for the way we think about our families.

Simon Studio Presents: The Portrait: Audio Theater

The Portrait is a satirical comedy revolving around an upper-crust dinner party, where a family's young bohemians "duel" their snobbish elder East Side counterparts over ownership of a rich ancestral portrait. This play, written by Sarah Levine Simon, was first performed at Lincoln Center's Bruno Walter Auditorium and was later broadcast in 1993 on WBAI-FM in New York City.